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Chapter#2

Distractions

Everyone turned to see where Louis was looking and in an instant all thoughts of pranks-gone-wrong, punishments and murder plots were forgotten as Teddy was drowned in a sea of Weasleys and Potters.

Victoire and Molly (II) had charged towards him, still covered in goo and so had Dominique who had managed to jump from the top of the ladder, from where she had been observing the events before. Lily and Lucy had attached themselves to each of his leg and Hugo had managed to get a hold of his waist.

Fred, James and Louis turned to look at each other, each with a sly smile of their own. They were now quite sure that they had gotten off of what most definitely was going to be an excruciating and painful 'explanation' of their actions.

Arthur and Molly quickly realised that if they didn't get their grandchildren off Teddy, the boy would most likely pass out very soon from the lack of oxygen.

Molly had just opened her mouth to speak but Rose beat her to it. "You will suffocate him, you idiots!" she said rather loudly but it seemed to have a null effect on her cousins. "Al, why are you just standing there? Help Teddy!"

Albus shook into action immediately to try and help Teddy get out of the tangled mess. Rose then turned to the three trouble-makers, "You three better help him, if you want your only hope of escaping death today, to survive" she said. The three didn't even take a moment to think as they rushed forward to help.

After 15 minutes of screaming, shouting and cursing; Al, James, Fred and Louis had finally managed to free Teddy of the clutches of their overly excited cousins.

After another 10 minutes, everyone had finally calmed down enough to greet Teddy without being lethal in their manner.

A further 5 minutes, and all of them had finally spotted Scorpius Malfoy, who was looking slightly annoyed. This was the second time that evening that he'd been completely overlooked by everyone because of Teddy. However, the annoyance on his face soon turned into a big grin as he was welcomed and greeted by everyone with the same love and affection as Teddy.

They were all now sitting in the living room, where both Teddy and Scorpius were readying themselves for inquisition.

"So Teddy", started Rose "how did you manage to get him out of The Manor?" she said gesturing towards Scorpius.

Teddy looked just about to answer her question when Scorpius held up a hand in his direction and turned his head towards Rose, glaring fiercely at her, "First of all, I just want to make it clear that Teddy did not 'get me out' of the Manor," here he turned his head so he could direct his steady, intense gaze at Al, "neither did I 'escape' from there." Al understood clearly that Scorpius was referring to their little talk that they had had outside and the furious look he was giving him made him rather uncomfortable.

Scorpius paused to take a deep breath and then turned his head again towards Rose, who looked slightly confused at her friend's odd behaviour. He spoke again; his voice evidently louder than before, "Why do all of you just assume that I would need some sort of rescuing to get out of my house? I understand that you don't think so highly of my family or my parents and I also understand the reasons behind it...but would it kill you to treat me once like you would any other friend of yours who'd have come to visit you? Would you rather not treat me like this...like I'm some disturbed, tortured child from a family of people who weren't as good as your parents?", he shouted the last part.

He paused again and looked at everyone's faces in turn. Silence had descended upon every occupant in the room, even the little ones remained glued to the spot, horrified expressions on their faces.

Scorpius sighed and hung his head low; when he spoke again it was in a quiet tone, his voice laced with hurt and anguish, " I understand all of it but why am I the one being punished for the mistakes that my elders made? My home is not a prison and my parents aren't cruel sadists like you imagine them to be. I am a normal person from a normal loving family and wish to be treated the same. Don't treat me like this...p-please just don't treat me like this. I...I c-can't take t-t-this a-anymore..." his shoulder started shaking with silent sobs.

Everyone in the room looked taken aback by his outburst save Teddy and Al whose expressions were a mixture of amusement and shock albeit for reasons only known to them.

Rose looked close to tears herself; she slowly rose from her seat and made her way to where Scorpius was sitting on the floor. She reached around him and wrapped him in a comforting hug, "Scorpius I am so sorry, I-I never knew you felt this way...I-I-I should've..." Rose said in disturbed voice. However she never got finish her sentence as Scorpius had finally lost it and was now rolling over the floor in robust laughter. And it was all that was needed for Teddy and Al to break as well and combust into a fit of laughter.

"Oh Merlin... I...c-can't b-believe...you fell...f-for it." Scorpius managed to squeak out in between the laughter. Another couple of minutes passed until he was able to get his composure back, still somewhat breathless though.

Teddy and Albus were still gasping for breath clutching their stomachs from the pain of laughing too much. "Oh my... that was brilliant ...I mean you should've all seen your faces...oh Godric!" Albus said, amusement dripping from his voice.

There was a moment's silence and then Dominique stood up and started clapping loudly, rather dramatically. She walked over to Scorpius and shook his hand, "That was ingenious Scorpius! And might I say, what a phenomenal actor you are...absolutely brilliant!" she praised. "But let me also make it clear that I will not be able to save you." she declared.

"Save me? What are you talki..." Scorpius didn't need the answer to his incomplete question now that he had spotted a rather furious looking Rose standing behind Dominique.

The look Rose was giving him would have burned him alive, had she possessed the power to do so. "R-Rose l-look...I didn't...I-I mean I was only joking...I-I didn't even know what I was saying...it was all just rubbish...I just made it up..." Scorpius stuttered as he tried to explain himself to Rose.

"Scorpius Malfoy," Rose said in a dangerously low tone, "you. are. dead "

With that she pulled out her wand from her pocket and pointed it straight in his direction.

Victoire looking slightly alarmed stepped closer to Rose, "Are you mad Rose, you're not allowed to use magic out of school." She said in a calm voice.

"I don't care if I get sent to Azkaban for killing...at least the world will be free of an idiotic, insensitive prat like him." Rose said in the same low tone she had used before.

Teddy quickly realised that it was time for him to step in."Rose listen," Teddy started calmly as he casually stepped in front of Rose, successfully blocking her view of Scorpius and thus coming in the direct line of fire of her wand, "forget about this git, you know how much of an idiot he is. You don't need to waste your energy nor your time on him."

There was silence for a couple of minutes as Rose seemed to contemplate then she sighed and lowered her wand, "You're right Teddy."

She looked past Teddy, cast a final glare at Scorpius and then turned to go and sit beside Molly (II) on the floor.

Scorpius heaved a sigh of relief but kept standing at the same spot.

"So Teddy, would you mind continuing your story? And Malfoy you can sit now, Rose seems to have revoked her plan of killing you." James said with a smile but failed to notice the cushion Rose had hurled at him. He turned his head just in time for the cushion to hit him square in the face. "Shut up James!" said Rose but James kept smiling knowing that this would annoy her more than a pillow-throwing counter-attack.

Teddy took this as his cue and started again, speaking loudly so as to get everyone's attention, "Well, I managed to finish the paperwork early for the mission that my team had completed last week. So I was given off early and I went to visit Draco, because I hadn't been able to meet him for the past six months or so..." Just like that Teddy recounted the whole story to his family.

Scorpius had only been allowed to come on Teddy's request and was to return home that night at 21:00 sharp. Teddy would drop him via floo back at the Malfoy's manor.

"Well as interesting as it was listening to your small adventure Teddy, I think we'll now go and complete some important work." Louis said as he, James and Fred made to stand up.

"What sort of important work?" asked Victoire clearly suspecting her brother's intentions.

"Oh you know, homework. We have to complete a rather useless History of Magic essay. Binns will have our heads if we don't submit this one, we've got three already pending." said Louis casually.

"Okay."Victoire said slowly looking cynical still. "But if I catch you three doing something that you shouldn't be doing, I swear you will not be able to escape this time." She finished in a warning tone.

"Okay sure sis." Said Louis over his shoulder as he started to climb the stairs.

Victoire just rolled her eyes. She was just thinking about going after the three of them to check what they were really doing when Teddy grabbed her hand, turned her around and firmly planted his lips on her's.

The whole room burst into cries of protests. Al, Scorpius and Roxy started making gagging noises.

"Oi get a room for Merlin's sake!" shouted Rose at the same time as Dominique yelled "Stop kissing my sister in front of me."

Teddy and Victoire paid no head to the yelling or gagging as they were now in a world of their own and so they deserved. They had spent three months apart after all. And so they remained thoroughly engaged in their reunion, completely ignoring their family around them.

Even though it meant that her trouble-maker brother and cousins had got off easy, Victoire was certainly very grateful for this distraction.

Next update on Tuesday.